The price of ivory is up 1,000% since global ban on ivory trade, but is slowly decreasing
The authors studied where ivory is sold and for how much -- in a bid to nip poaching at the ...
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Archaeologists find 50,000 year-old tiara, made from wooly mammoth ivory
It's still beautiful to this day.
DNA sequencing might help finally link smugglers to ivory shipments
There are not many people I dislike as intensely as ivory poachers.
Ivory trade made Greenland great, then barren again
Turns out a one-trick economy never lasts long.
Journalist Uses GPS Trackers and Fake Elephant Tusks to Reveal Smuggling Route
Every year, over 30,000 elephants are murdered, slaughtered for their tusks. Ivory is an extremely valuable commodity, and many people ...
Tracing Ivory DNA helps curb massive poaching that’s killing 1 in 10 elephants each year
We seem to be losing the war on elephant poachers, but a new toolset that involves tracing slaughter hotspots in ...
60% of large herbivores on the verge of extinction, bleak study finds
The 74 largest terrestrial herbivores are on the verge of extinction, a new worrying study has found. All in all, ...
100,000 elephants killed in Africa between 2010 and 2012, study finds
Elephant numbers are dwindling, with over 100.000 elephants being killed in Africa between 2010 and 2012. ...
China destroys six tonnes of seized ivory as anti-poaching message
Photo: Vincent Yu/Associated Press As China's populace grew in affluence and trade restrictions with other countries ...
China is killing Africa’s elephants
The number of elephant poaching in Africa has increased dramatically, as well as the Chinese demand for ivory, and according ...
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